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Welcome to the Community Pain Center Clinical Trials Resource Center, presented in partnership with CenterWatch, the leading publisher of information on clinical research for patients and their advocates and healthcare professionals. Please click on the blue headers below to learn more about clinical research and new medical therapies for treating pain and neurology-related conditions.

About Clinical Research
This section provides background information about the clinical trials process and what to expect when you volunteer to participate in a clinical trial. Here, you’ll find answers to frequently asked questions about clinical trials and also suggestions for where to find more information.

Listing of Clinical Trials
This is a listing of U.S. and international clinical trials actively recruiting patients for pain. Use these listings to search for clinical trials by geographic region. Please check back regularly since this database is updated daily.

Email Notification Service
Register your email address to be notified when new pain and other neurology clinical trials are posted to the database.

Volunteering for Clinical Trials
When considering volunteering for a clinical trial, it is important to make an informed decision. Here are answers to frequently asked questions that many potential volunteers have about participating in a study.

Understanding Informed Consent
Prior to agreeing to participate in clinical research, every volunteer has the right to know and understand what will happen during a clinical trial. This is called informed consent and it is a process that can help you decide whether or not participating in a trial is right for you.

FDA Drug Approvals
This is a comprehensive listing of drugs that have recently been approved by the Food and Drug Administration. The drugs are organized by therapeutic area.

Neurology Research Centers
This directory provides detailed profiles of hundreds of clinical research centers specializing in neurology research. Research centers are organized geographically by state, city and center name.

CenterWatch Research Headlines
Here you’ll find links to news articles and reports on recent advances in clinical research. This section is updated weekly and the information has been published in CenterWatch publications during the past weeks. There may not always be neurology-related material included.

New Medical Therapies (NMT) in Neurology
NMT Weekly Trial Results database is designed to provide easy access to information about the results of recently completed and ongoing clinical trials and is based on published materials from medical conferences and journals and from company reports. The clinical trial result summaries typically include the name and phase of the new therapy, the company sponsoring the research, a description of the trial design, and information on how well the drug has performed.